Re: IPv6 support for syslog

John Haxby wrote:
> On 27/11/09 22:34, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >The patch produce a small problem. When INET6 is not defined, syslogd
> >does not seem to accept any log messages, neither from the IPv4 UDP
> >port nor from the local Unix domain socket.
> >
> >It seems the patch requires some adjustments. Do you have some time
> >for this?
>
> Sorry it took me so long to get around to this, but I finally got time.
>
> I can't reproduce this problem. With the patch applied and
> "-DINET6" missing from the Makefile, strace shows syslogd
> select()ing on two sockets which lsof tells me are /dev/log and a
> UDP socket bound to port 514.

I am sorry. You are correct. My test environment was broken. The
patch indeed does look fine. Therefore I have applied it. It'll be
part of the next release.

Again, thanks a lot for your work,

        Joey

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